Paul, why only after migrating to 10g? The CBO in Oracle 9i with system stats ought to do the same - derive the cost of a full scan from the MBRC system stats value rather than from the dfmrc init parameter - or do you have evidence to the contrary? Paul Drake wrote: > > After you migrate to 10g (and gather system stats), you may be able to > get away with a larger db_file_multiblock_read_count (without the CBO > wanting to tablescan/hash_join everything) in which case a larger > stripe size will be better. > -- Regards Wolfgang Breitling Centrex Consulting Corporation www.centrexcc.com -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l